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Friday January 10, 2025
Friday morning and snow and the weekend are both arriving. Anywhere between 6 to 8 inches to accumulate here in Music City. And folks in the south don’t know how to drive in the snow. Geez. They’re saying over 90 million will be affected in the country with snow, ice bringing on massive travel problems.
YESTERDAY
It was a “get ready to be locked in” Thursday for the storm that’s going to pile snow on us today. Gas up, grocery up, kind of day. Our road will be impassable all weekend and probably into the first of the week without 4 wheel drive. Fortunately, we have really good neighbors who do have a 4X4 who have offered to get me where I’ll need to be come Monday maybe Tuesday or more next week. Can’t beat having good neighbors.
LAST NIGHT
I was glued to the couch (where I’m going to be for a few days now because of the winter storm) watching the Orange Bowl game in Miami that Notre Dame pulled out at the end over Penn State. Heck of a football game. Notre Dame will play in the championship game against the winner of the Texas-Ohio State game later tonight at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. Hopefully that game will he half as good as last nights game.
SOME GOOD NEWS
The Mountain Bluegrass-Gospel end of the year chart came out yesterday and it was pretty cool to see 3 of my songs in the best of year end list.
“God Never Made A Mountain” by Kristy Cox came in #11 for the year written with Josh Shilling and Andrea Pearson.
“Blue Collar Gospel” landed in the #13 spot from Jerry Salley and the Oak Ridge Boys written with Jerry and Rick Lang.
And “Country Faith” by Kristen Leigh Bearfield featuring gospel great Karen Peck is in the #24 slot written with Kristen and Bob Minner.
Pretty good way to wind up 2024 musically…a blessing for sure.
NEW SHOW
I’ll be in Chattanooga February 21 and 22 for Freedom Sings USA where myself and songwriters Steve Dean, Don Goodman, Bobby Tomberlin and Mutt Cooper will write songs with veterans from that area that wraps up with a concert on that Saturday night where each of us will perform those songs written earlier in the day with a veteran, with each veteran sitting beside the songwriter as the song is performed. I always look forward to being part of something this “red, white, and blue”. Just to be there when those veterans are recognize and applauded is really something…every time.
SONG OF THE DAY
Choosing this song makes good sense for today as Nashville has been invaded by Jim Cantore…the guy nobody wants to see in their town because it means bad weather is on the way. So today’s song is titled “Jim Cantore” that Brent Burns and I wrote years ago that Brent recorded.
This was Brent’s idea…and I was hesitant to write it at the time because I didn’t really know about who Jim Cantore was. Didn’t watch the Weather Channel really. But I’m glad I gave in and helped him write it because the song gets HUGE laughs anytime either of us sing it. Especially when it’s sung on or near a beach.
And here’s a funny side story on that song. Again, several years ago after a damaging hurricane, some folks put together a Trop Rock (beach type) album where several artists in that genre donated a song to be put on that album to help raise money to benefit those who needed help after that hurricane.
One day on the Weather Channel…Jim Cantore was at the desk on TV with his two morning co-anchors when they surprised him by playing a bit of our “Jim Cantore” song…plugging the charitable album. The two co-anchors laughed while it was playing…Jim Cantore? Not so much.
Listen to the song…I’ll bet you will laugh as well.
HEALTH NOTES
For coffee drinkers like me comes this research that concludes only having coffee in the morning is associated with a 16% lower risk of premature death from any cause and a 31% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease. Those who drink coffee all day didn’t have a reduction in risk.
A new report warns that there are over 35,000 online pharmacies that are illegal and could be selling dangerous and ineffective drugs. Buyer beware.
Scientists are saying that diabetes, heart disease cases are skyrocketing and the key reason they are pinpointing is sugary drinks.
HERE’S YOUR SIGN
AI
How about this. In a survey 41% of employers worldwide say they will be reducing staffs by 2030 with AI replacing those jobs. Yep…Dylan was right again. The times they is a changing.
THIN MINTS
It’s Girl Scout cookie time. And Wendy’s is jumping on that train by offering up a Thin Mint Frosty. Uh huh. Pretty sure I’m going to have to try that bad boy.
HEADLINE OF THE DAY
Parents Keep Kids Home To Protest School Closings. (Yea…that’ll show em!)
TODAY
I was to write in person with my Australian friend Angus Gill today but that’s impossible with the roads being the way they are…so we’ll hook up electronically like we did many times when Angus was still living in Australia…he lives here in Nashville full time now. Technology is not all bad after all.
And then I’m going to just hunker down for a few days and wait for the snow to melt enough to get down the driveway.
Have a great weekend!
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